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Louis I of Spain
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Louis I of Spain

Monarch of Spain

Born 25 August 1707 · died 31 August 1724, aged 17

Who was alive at the same time as Louis I of Spain?

  1. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  2. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  4. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  5. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  6. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  7. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  8. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  9. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  10. Alexander Pope, 1688 – 1744
  11. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  12. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  13. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  14. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  15. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  16. Louis I of Spain, 1707 – 1724
  17. Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 1784
  18. David Hume, 1711 – 1776
  19. Frederick the Great, 1712 – 1786
  20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  21. Denis Diderot, 1713 – 1784
  22. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 1717 – 1783
  23. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  24. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804

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When Louis I of Spain was born, Isaac Newton was 64, Johann Sebastian Bach was 22, Voltaire was 12, Benjamin Franklin was 1 and Carl Linnaeus was under a year old.

When Louis I of Spain died, Isaac Newton was 81, Johann Sebastian Bach was 39, Voltaire was 29, Immanuel Kant was under a year old and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 12.

Born during Louis I of Spain’s lifetime: Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, David Hume, Denis Diderot, Samuel Johnson, Frederick the Great and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington was born about 8 years after Louis I of Spain died, John Locke died about 3 years before Louis I of Spain was born, Matsuo Bashō died about 13 years before Louis I of Spain was born and John Adams was born about 11 years after Louis I of Spain died.

Where Louis I of Spain’s contemporaries were born

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The 121 best-known contemporaries

121 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Louis I of Spain. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1716.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  6. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  7. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  8. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  9. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  10. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  11. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  12. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  13. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  14. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  15. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  16. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  17. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  18. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  19. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  20. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  21. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  22. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  23. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  24. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  25. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  26. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  27. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  28. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  29. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  30. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  31. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  32. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  33. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  34. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  35. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  36. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  37. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  38. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  39. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  40. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  41. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  42. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  43. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  44. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  45. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  46. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  47. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  48. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  49. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  50. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  51. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  52. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  53. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  54. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  55. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  56. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  57. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  58. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  59. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  60. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  61. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  62. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  63. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  64. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  65. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  66. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  67. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  68. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  69. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  70. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  71. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  72. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  73. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  74. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  75. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  76. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  77. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  78. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  79. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  80. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  81. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  82. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  83. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  84. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  85. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  86. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  87. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  88. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  89. Madame de Pompadour 1721 – 1764
  90. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  91. Horace Walpole 1717 – 1797
  92. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  93. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  94. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1708 – 1778
  95. Leopold Mozart 1719 – 1787
  96. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  97. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  98. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  99. Samuel Adams 1722 – 1803
  100. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 1724 – 1803
  101. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  102. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  103. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 – 1745
  104. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703 – 1792
  105. Qianlong Emperor 1711 – 1799
  106. Peter III of Portugal 1717 – 1786
  107. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  108. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  109. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  110. Émilie du Châtelet 1706 – 1749
  111. Ferdinand VI 1713 – 1759
  112. Augustus II the Strong 1670 – 1733
  113. François Quesnay 1694 – 1774
  114. Pietro Metastasio 1698 – 1782
  115. Julien Offray de La Mettrie 1709 – 1751
  116. Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1717 – 1768
  117. Tomaso Albinoni 1671 – 1751
  118. Christian Wolff 1679 – 1754
  119. Pierre de Marivaux 1688 – 1763
  120. Frederick William I of Prussia 1688 – 1740
  121. François Boucher 1703 – 1770